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Meta Wants to Beat Google at its Own Game with Horizon OS

Road to VR

Apple vs. Microsoft. Apple vs. Google. “Or you can imagine one that’s fully focused on watching immersive entertainment like movies and videos with the highest resolution and OLED screens, or think of one that’s fully optimized for gaming, sports or all kinds of different peripherals and haptics.

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Could VR Sports Be The Future Of The Metaverse?

VRScout

[link] , sports of the metaverse @rekverse Joining me on this journey is @BartronPolygon an ex-Apple AR engineer. The company was established with the belief that connecting people together to play and exercise will unlock the true potential of the metaverse. Let’s discuss the why, and how we're gonna make this big.

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Big XR News From Apple, Mozilla, Vodafone and RealWear

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Attendees of the Mobile World Congress had the opportunity to try out the HyperRealityHub using AR glasses utilising Snapdragon’s AR2 Gen 1 Platform, guided through wellness exercises by a virtual agent called VEDA or interacting with VEDA as a hologram-like projection without wearing AR glasses. million compatible apps.

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Meta Rebranding Quest Software Horizon OS, Will Run On New Headsets From ASUS, Lenovo, More

Upload VR

A line of headsets for "productivity, learning, and entertainment" from Lenovo. A headset "fully focused on immersive entertainment like watching movies and videos with the highest resolution OLED screens." A headset "designed for exercise that's extra-light with sweat-wicking materials". Will this be true for XR too?

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Fitness Startup YUR Introduces VR Calorie Tracker

VRScout

YUR, short for “why you are,” wants to make fitness more entertaining and accessible, starting with their first product — the YURfit Plug-in, which will track the calories you burn while playing in VR. adults are not receiving enough daily physical activity, there is clearly a demand for fun and passive exercise experiences.

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ARtillery Briefs, Episode 46: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook

AR Insider

These are marks of an industry that’s moving into adolescence, With that backdrop, we embarked on our annual exercise of examining lessons from the past 12 months and projecting the next 12. And the stakes are high as Apple doubles down on wearables to offset declines from a maturing smartphone market.

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Transform The Sky Into An Open Canvas With Blue Sky Paint AR App

VRScout

Perhaps you have a friend visiting, but you have to be at work a majority of the day and are unable to entertain. The app also has the potential to serve a variety of non entertainment purposes. It successfully gamifies AR with creativity, exercise, and social interaction, a feat not often accomplished by new mobile experiences.

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